RAIL-CAR DEFECT.

Pahiatua Herald, 29 September 1936, Page 5

RAIL-CAR DEFECT.

MINISTER MISSES “DATE.” Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. Through trouble with the rail-car in which he was travelling, the I Minister of Industries and Commerce and Railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, I was unable to attend the golden jubilee gatheiing of the Auckland I Manufacturers’ Association on Sat- | urday, and was represented there by Mr .1. A Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Minister of Finance. With the Minister and an official party the rail-car left Wellington on Saturday morning at 7 o’clock, being due at Auckland at 6 o’clock that evening. A fault developed in the electrical equipment of the car, and a change was made to a steam train at Marion, the rail-car, after temporary repairs, returning to Wellington, on Sunday. The Minister and his party reached Auckland early on the morning of Sunday, lit l is expected to return to-day to Wellington, after spending yesterday hearing deputations in Auckland. AUCKLAND-WELLINGTON SERVICE. -AUCKLAND. September 28A prophecy of a rail service between Auckland and Wellington in nine hours and a half was made by the General Manager of Railways. Mr G. ri Mackley, this morning, when discussing the projected daylight rail-car tourist service. | Standard rail-cars which could I reach a speed of 70 miles ai: hour I with abso.ute comfort and safety I would be finished at the Hutt w ork- I shops in nine months’ time, and I would be utilised on the New Zealand I railways with the exception of rhe I Wairarapa line. The workshops were now complex- I ing the last of seven special cars I for the Wairarapa line. Four of the I latter cars bad already proved on- I tirelv satisfactory to the department I ano the travelling public.